Be wary of a company that pays employees to write fluff reviews - Associate alliantgroup, LP Employee Review

Investment High Performance Raving Fan Mission Active Not Passive Energy and Passion Ownership Urgency Collaboration Transparency I started working at alliantgroup because I was sold a dream during the interview process. Posters of the core values are plastered in every interview room and at random on each floor. During the job shadowing you meet people and they seem very enthusiastic about their job and what they do. During the call saying I got the job I jotted down notes (GUARANTEED $12.5K bonus first year, 3 weeks PTO, early release on Fridays if goals are hit, expected salary increases, etc etc) and as the weeks and months progressed I would occasionally go back and read what I wrote and compare them to what I actually got. (most of it was a lie) Integrity is a core value I didn’t realize was missing until right before I quit. Integrity also doesn’t have a place there; it would be laughably ironic and a whole lie. I didn’t google “alliantgroup lawsuit” or “alliantgroup problems” until my third week of working there. Not every day you see dozens of articles about your company’s dubious dealings. They have you focus so hard on being results driven that you completely miss the fact that sometimes the way they want you to drive to those results may not be illegal, but they sure aren’t ethical. You can tell a lot about a company based on their core values and everything you need to know about alliantgroup and what they truly value in employees and work is right there in front of you. Alliantgroup is a scam. I mean that in a “I’m impressed ya’ll are still in business, but wholly not surprised due to the exceptionally high turnover” kind of way. There’s a saying when you work there that alliantgroup time is double the time in the real world. If you work there 6 months its really like working a year anywhere else. Which is true because: “it’s like drinking from a water hose all the time but you get used to” – every team director. You either stay late, get there early, come in on the weekends/work from home on the weekends or some combination of all three. There’s a fine line between being too busy and not busy enough and you always have to be busy otherwise are you really a high performer? Are you really taking ownership and being active not passive? Transparency is the main core value they really push and it sounds nice but, like everything else at 3009 Post Oak, there’s a questionable underside. Transparency means “in the moment feedback” and it also means if someone doesn’t like you they can criticize by being “transparent”. It is tax work – the most boring, black and white job on the planet, but at alliantgroup you might as well be talking about professional Mean Girls. Men and women are catty, passive aggressive, and nosy. If you miss one of the company’s Raves at the end of tax season you’re on the naughty list. Words like “mandatory” and “obligation” aren’t spoken aloud in reference to an office party you don’t actually want to go to, but have to so as to look like you’re interested in spending another 6 hours at work with your coworkers instead of going home (office hours are 8:30 – 6:30 and the rave starts at 6 pm and usually doesn’t end until after midnight). Bonuses are a joke because billable work is eaten up really quickly when there are dozens of hands in the pot for one client. Ah, the clients. I kept a record of how many times I heard a client say “unethical billing practices” in reference to how we billed them. Blended rate of almost $400 and let’s assume there are 3-4 people on an hour long call (even though we might say there’s only 2 because new people are always sitting in on calls) that gets pretty expensive pretty quickly. You learn how to pivot away from answering the client’s questions about why it’s so expensive. You bill for every little thing and then if you don’t meet your numbers before the first of next month, you back bill the clients. Accounting will handle making sure they pay the invoice for that, no problem. Oh! A notable judge who “blessed” the alliantgroup process of doing things is in jail for tax evasion. If that isn’t a blatant tell of the company and its dealings, I don’t know what is.